Camera Characteristics - Pentax w Operating Manual

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Camera Characteristics

• Uses a 23.5×15.7mm CCD with 6.1 mega-pixels of effective pixels for
high precision and a wide dynamic range.
• Small, light, and highly rigid among digital cameras with interchangeable
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lenses.
• Consecutive shooting at approximately three 2.6 per second (6 frames
max.) with noise reduction off.
• Features a newly developed AF sensor, with 11-point distance
measurement. (Center uses a wide cross area AF including 9 focus
points.)
• Improved manual focusing using a viewfinder similar to a conventional
35mm SLR camera, but with 0.95× magnification. Also features a
superimpose function, in which the focus points on the viewfinder
illuminate red.
• Can use two CR-V3 lithium batteries, four AA lithium batteries, four AA
Ni-MH batteries or four AA alkaline batteries.
• Features the two-dial hyper operating system.
• Can install the battery grip (sold separately) which uses the same
batteries as the camera, extends battery life and has a vertical shutter
release button.
This camera can be used with a variety of Pentax 35mm interchangeable
lenses.
While the size of the CCD is 23.5×15.7mm, the format size of the 35mm
camera is 36×24mm. As a result, the angle of view (the size and scale of
the subject to be photographed) will differ from 35mm cameras when
lenses of the same focal length are used to take pictures from the same
distance.
The format size of a 35mm camera is approximately 1.5 times larger than
the format size of this camera. As such, focal distance when the lens for
35mm format lens is attached to this camera will be equivalent to approx.
1.5 times more than the value noted on the lens.